Decker v. University Civil Service System Merit Board of the University Civil Service System

Plaintiffs, who are nonacademic employees of the University of Illinois at Urbana, brought suit in the circuit court of Champaign County seeking to compel the defendants to pay to them the prevailing wage rates in that area. Plaintiffs’ claim is based on legislation entitled “An Act in relation to the rate of pay for State employees who are not subject to the ‘Personnel Code’. Approved September 25, 1975, P.A. 79-1091, eff. October 1, 1975.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 127, par. 391.

The complaint was in four counts. Count I sought mandamus, count II asked for declaratory judgment, count III…